“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you”

“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”

“We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.”